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This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival
material held in the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are
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This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National
Endowment for the Humanities; this finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

A. J. Miller (died 1856) was a Georgia state senator. The collection contains scattered
correspondence of an Augusta, Ga., family including letters home from A. J. Miller
while he was a member of the state senate, 1856, and letters from his son, William
J. Miller, 1st Regiment, Georgia Volunteers, Confederate States of America, from Camp
Georgia, near Pensacola, Fla., in April and May 1861, and later from Virginia.

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants,
as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the A. J. Miller Papers, #510-z, Southern Historical
Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from the Eves, granddaughters of A. J. Miller, of Augusta, Ga., prior to
1940.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or
confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy
laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. §
132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of
State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.).
Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to
identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent
of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under
common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's
private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable
person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no
responsibility.

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entire collection; the terms do
not usually represent
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The collection includes scattered correspondence of an Augusta, Ga., family including
letters home from A. J. Miller while he was a member of the state senate, 1856, and
letters from his son, William J. Miller, 1st Regiment, Georgia Volunteers, Confederate
States of America, from Camp Georgia, near Pensacola, Fla., in April and May 1861,
and later from Virginia. The Civil War letters discuss camp life, army leadership,
and hardships.